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Rating not increasing

By bithal, history, 2 months ago, In English

Hello everyone,

I started competitive programming 8 months ago, but my rating isn’t increasing. I can’t figure out the reason. Can anyone please suggest which topics I should learn at my stage to improve my rating? I also have a doubt: How should I manage my time when practicing and getting stuck on a question?

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2 months ago, # |
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I also need guidance & tips for the same. Kindly reply us with the method u applied to ace your CP skills :)

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https://codeforces.me/blog/entry/48232

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most of the problems you've solved so far are in range [800, 1400] and your rate is 1250 which is normal. you have to try solving problems with higher difficulty. you can learn topics in usaco guide. for becoming specialist I think topics of usaco bronze section is enough. https://usaco.guide/bronze

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I was also in your position. So, to reach Specialist and above, I recommend u to learn DP and Graphs. DP isn't a very easy thing to learn, it would definitely take a lot of time, but try to learn the basics of DP [all the basics of recursive and iterative dp and learn some simple dp algorithms that revolve around only 1-2 states] and Graphs [Bfs, DFS, Topsort, Djikstra and nothing advance]. I am still trying to master this 2 (DP+Graph) topics as maximum problems rated above 1500s are filled up with these 2 topics.

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    Yes, I have started learning Dynamic Programming. Thanks

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